سرب

سَرَبَ

To go forth or go away into the land, or to go about accomplishing one's need.

A Form I verb with the infinitive سُرُوبٌ; the expression may describe movement through the country or going about during the day.

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سَرَبَ

To wander or go away at random into the country.

This is an explicitly reported extension of going forth without a fixed destination.

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سَرَبَ

Of camels, cattle, or a stallion camel, to go out freely to pasture or to the grazing place.

Used of livestock or a stallion that leads or accompanies the herd to pasture.

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سَرَبَ

Of water, a spring, a waterskin, or a mirage, to flow or run; of a waterskin, to leak through its seams.

The water may run over the ground, flow from a source, or escape through punctures in a sewn skin.

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سَرَبَ

To sew a waterskin or similar skin.

The associated verbal noun سَرْبٌ is also used for the sewing itself.

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سُرِبَ

To become affected by constipation through the penetrating fumes of molten lead or silver.

A rare passive-form lexical usage, reported of a man who may recover or die from the condition.

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سَرَّبَ

To send camels, horsemen, people, or things in a group or successively; to send someone back by the way he came.

The sending may be party after party, portion after portion, or one thing after another.

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سَرَّبَ

To make a subterranean excavation; of a digger, to dig a well toward the right and left.

The construction describes lateral underground digging rather than ordinary surface excavation.

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سَرَّبَ

To pour water into a new waterskin so that its sewing cord swells and seals the punctures.

The action is performed to make the skin watertight by moistening the thong used in sewing it.

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أَسْرَبَ

To make water flow.

A Form IV causative usage.

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تَسَرَّبَ

To follow one another continuously along a road.

Used of people or things proceeding successively through a route.

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تَسَرَّبَ

To become full of water.

An intransitive Form V usage, distinct from causing a waterskin to be filled or sealed.

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اِنْسَرَبَ

To enter into a subterranean habitation, burrow, or other place of concealment.

Used especially of a wild animal or fox entering its underground abode.

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سَرْبٌ

Pasturing livestock; livestock that pasture during the day without a herder.

The noun may denote the act of pasturing or the camels and cattle engaged in it.

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سَرْبٌ

A sheepfold.

A separately reported nominal usage.

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سَرْبٌ

A way, road, or course; the unobstructed way in which someone goes.

It occurs in expressions meaning to leave someone's way free or to release a captive to proceed freely.

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سَرْبٌ

The bosom, breast, or mind; breadth of mind, judgment, or disposition.

In the expression وَاسِعُ السَّرْبِ, it can describe an ample-minded person, including one slow to anger.

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سِرْبٌ

A herd, flock, or group of animals; by extension, a group of women or men, birds, or a collection of palm trees.

The term is applied to gazelles, wild cattle, wild asses, sheep and goats, birds, and other grouped creatures; the human applications are figurative or extended.

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سِرْبٌ

A way, road, or course.

This is the kasra-vowelled form reported as synonymous with سَرْبٌ in the sense of a way.

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سِرْبٌ

A state or condition, especially ease or spaciousness of mind.

In وَاسِعُ السِّرْبِ, it can describe someone in an unstraitened condition or slow to anger.

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سِرْبٌ

The heart, mind, or self; in idiomatic use, one's household, family, property, or people.

In آمِنٌ فِي سِرْبِهِ, authorities variously explain the referent as one's inner self, household, property, or people.

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سَرَبٌ

A subterranean channel or conduit by which water enters a garden or walled palm garden.

This is a water-engineering sense, distinct from the hidden passage described in the Quranic occurrence.

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سَرَبٌ

Flowing water, including water escaping from a waterskin or from holes in its sewing.

The noun may describe water running freely or dripping through punctures in a leather container.

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سَرَبٌ

Water put into a new waterskin so that its sewing cord becomes moist, swells, and closes the holes.

This names the preparatory water used to make a newly sewn skin watertight.

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سَرِبٌ

Flowing or leaking water; a waterskin that is leaking.

The adjective is applied to water and to a leather water container that allows water to escape.

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سَرْبَةٌ

A single puncture or stitch-hole in a skin or similar object.

The source explicitly questions the vowel and proposes that this meaning may belong under سُرْبَةٌ; the form is therefore retained with that lexical uncertainty.

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سُرْبَةٌ

A short journey; a way, course, mode, or manner of proceeding.

The expression may describe taking a near or distant way, or pursuing a particular course of action.

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سُرْبَةٌ

A portion or detached group of a larger herd or collection; specifically, a group of horses.

The group of horses is variously reported as numbering roughly ten to thirty; the broader sense includes a detached portion of gazelles, birds, sheep, or similar animals.

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سُرْبَةٌ

A company of men who leave an army to make a hostile incursion and return.

This is a specialized military sense of a detached company.

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سُرْبَةٌ

A row or line, including a row of grapevines.

The sense extends to any orderly row or line.

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سُرْبَةٌ

A seam, stitch, puncture, or stitch-hole in a skin or similar object.

This is a noun for the result or component of sewing a leather container.

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سَرَابِ

The proper name of the she-camel associated with al-Basūs.

An indeclinable or imperfectly declinable proper name in a proverbial expression; it is unrelated to the ordinary noun meaning mirage except in form.

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سَرُوبٌ

Accustomed to go away at random.

An intensive or adjectival derivative describing one habitually wandering or departing without fixed direction.

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سَرِيبَةٌ

A sheep or goat that is driven back from water after drinking and followed by the flock.

A specialized term for the animal that leads the return from the watering place.

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سَارِبٌ

Going away freely or at random into the country.

This broader Classical usage is distinct from the Quranic contextual contrast of hiding by night and going forth by day.

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سَارِبٌ

Going to pasture; of camels, cattle, or a stallion camel, repairing to the grazing place.

Also applied to a gazelle going away in its grazing place.

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أُسْرُبٌ

Lead, or a related dark metallic substance such as black lead, tin, or pewter.

An Arabicized loanword, with أُسْرُبٌّ reported as the more common form.

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أُسْرُبٌّ

The fumes of molten lead or silver.

A specialized material sense associated with the Arabicized metal term.

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مَسْرَبٌ

A way or route; also a place where livestock go to pasture.

The derived noun can denote either the route itself or the pasture-place toward which livestock go.

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مَسْرَبٌ

A channel of water.

It may be used literally of a watercourse or figuratively of channels from which tears flow.

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مَسْرَبَةٌ

The passage and outlet of dung, or the upper part of the anus.

An anatomical usage with reported vowel variation.

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مَسْرَبَةٌ

A sitting place like a raised platform before a chamber.

The source distinguishes it from a chamber itself.

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مَسْرُبَةٌ

The narrow line or growth of hair descending from the breast toward the navel or pubes.

The reported extent ranges from the middle of the chest to the pubic region; the term can also mean the chest hair generally.

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مَسْرُبَةٌ

The soft parts of an animal's belly, including the groins and related areas.

In the plural مَسَارِب, the term refers to soft or lower body regions of beasts.

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مُنْسَرِبٌ

Very tall when applied to a man, or very long when applied to hair.

An adjectival usage describing extended height or length.

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